Reusablebags.com, one of my favorite sources for reusable shopping bags, is hosting a photo contest.
They want you to help raise awareness about the pollution caused by plastic bags by taking your camera to the beach or the park or anywhere in nature.
In their words –
We’re looking for the eerie, the “beautiful”, the ugly – how they affect nature, animals, beaches…
Go to Reusablebags.com to see how to enter and fun prizes. Deadline for entering the Reusablebags.com contest is May 31.
Image via flickr.

Acid rain is no good. Acid rain technically refers to both wet and dry material from the atmosphere that contains large amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids. To break it down, acid rain means polluted rain, snow, fog, hail, sleet, or even dust or smoke. If it falls to the ground and it’s polluted, then we call that acid rain. Even though, as you can see now, that term is somewhat misleading.
The pollution in acid rain is mainly caused by the burning of fossil fuels, like gasoline and oil. Coal burning and some natural sources, like volcanoes and decaying vegetation …read more